Category: Mindset

BREAK FREE FROM ALL LIMITATIONS 1

“And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.”

Genesis 27:40 (KJV)

After Jacob had received all his father’s blessings, Esau returned to receive his father’s blessings, and there was nothing left for him.

After much tears and pleading, Isaac spoke these words over Esau:

“And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;
And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.” Genesis 27:39-40 (KJV)

Though Jacob has taken all the blessings and shall be lord over Esau, and Esau will also be a servant to Jacob, Isaac left Esau with a little window of hope.

“and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck”

Isaac showed Esau how he can break the yoke of limitations or slavery:

When you shall have the dominion.

Very few people have focused on these words of Isaac to Esau.

Obviously, Esau’s decisions contributed to how he lost the blessing of the birthright. He technically traded his birthright as a firstborn for a single meal.

Esau took the future for granted and focused on the present gratification. He lived carnally. The scriptures referred to him as godless because he sold his birthright.

And the consequence was now to make him a slave to his brother.

Esau lost the blessing and inheritance of his birthright. But now, to continue to live forever as a slave to his brother, it was up to the choices he was going to make.

The word “dominion” in the phrase “…when you shall have the dominion” as used in the King James Translation is not the same Hebrew word “râdâh” (rule, subjugate, reign, tread down, overtake) as used in Genesis 1:26, 28.

The word dominion used in Genesis 27:40 is from the Hebrew word “rûd”, which means “to disconsolate”.

It speaks of a person becoming discomforted in a place or being restless in a way of thinking.

Esau’s past mistakes and choices had consequentially placed him in this position of slavery. His background and past have created a limitations for his future. But if only he shall awaken himself from anything keeping him in that position, he will have to break the yoke from his neck and live free.

Esau had the choice to remain bitter, crushed, defeated, disappointed, and enslaved, or he would shake himself out of such a state to carve a path into blessings for himself.

And all that Esau needed to break free was to forgive and love Jacob.

Esau wasn’t to live in the pain of the past. The more he envied and lived bitterly towards Jacob, the more he subjected himself to the yoke of his brother.

Esau did forgive Jacob and continued to prosper, and they both flourished as well (Genesis 33:4-16). It was the descendants of Esau (Edomites) who continued in the foolishness of bitterness and envy of Israel (descendants of Jacob) that led to their destruction.

However, the point basically is this: if even Esau had a way of escape from his past failure, much more you?

Living in limitation and struggle is a choice. You have to make a decision to take advantage of the power and victory of Christ at work in you.

He has supplied great faith into you so that you will walk in the reality of an overcomer.

Don’t settle for the limitations around you. Don’t think according to your background or where you live. Don’t make decisions according to how you feel.

Jesus came to break all limitations! And greater is He that is in you than He that is in the world.

Shake yourself from every yoke of the mind and of the heart. Live above all limitations.